This book aims to investigate the way in which personality rights are protected in China through a comparative and cross-cultural lens drawing on perspectives from Europe and elsewhere in the world. Currently, the question whether or not to incorporate a special law on personal rights – the...

Liability law is rapidly changing in quite a number of countries. This is due to various factors, which are interrelated to a large extent: changing case law and legislation as well as increased and still increasing technical and medical knowledge. As a result, various occupational diseases can,...

Intuitive statistical inferential judgments involve the estimation of statistical properties of samples of information, such as the mean or variance. Prior research has shown that human judges are generally good at making unbiased estimates of sample properties. However, a series of recent...

This article examines the taxation rules which first encouraged the development of structured settlements in the UK. These arrangements enable damages for personal injury to made in a regular series of periodical payments instead of the traditional single lump sum. The payments are free of tax...

This chapter examines Britain's “compensation culture,” and the allegation that society has had to bear an increasing burden as a result of the rising number and cost of claims for damages for personal injury. The analysis is divided into two parts: the total number of claims brought each...